In article <e_rmwm.278.000A2260@va.nmh.ac.uk>, e_rmwm@va.nmh.ac.uk (Roger
Musson) writes:> In article <miuran.22.0@rd.hydro.on.ca> miuran@rd.hydro.on.ca (Mr. N. Miura)> > writes:>Subject: Re: Why not 13 months? (Was La Systeme Metrique) > >From: miuran@rd.hydro.on.ca (Mr. N. Miura)> >Date: Wed, 16 Aug 95 15:32:01 GMT> > >In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.950814112401.3551E-100000@cms1> Anthony Potts > <potts@cern.ch> writes:>>From: Anthony Potts <potts@cern.ch>> >>Subject: Re: Why not 13 months? (Was La Systeme Metrique) > >>Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 09:26:11 GMT> >>> >>> >>On Fri, 11 Aug 1995, Helge Moulding wrote:> >>> >>> Why, where in the world are you from that a week starts with a Sunday?> >>> Only the most clueless start the week on any day other than Monday.> >>> Which means the thirteenth of each month is never Friday.> >>> --> >>> Helge Moulding> >>> > >>I am in England, here the week is taken as starting on a Sunday. When > >>them chaps went westwards to the new world, they also used this idea. Are > >>you saying that the idea has been changed, when, why?> >>> >>Yours questioningly,> >>> >>Anthony Potts> >>> >I am in Canada. Here calendars start on a Sunday, too. Once I was given a > >calendar in which the weeks started on a Monday by some reason. It was so > >difficult to use and posed a potential disaster of mistaking the day of > >the week, I threw it away.............. > > >Nobby Miura> > This is getting silly, however ...> > Although calendars start the week on a Sunday, diaries start the week on a > Monday. How strange the ways of Man.

Ah, is that Isle of Man? Anything with three legs just has to be peculiar.